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Deposit Account Litigation: Highlights From 2024 and What to Expect in 2025 — The Consumer Finance Podcast
Have you ever received a phone call claiming that your bank account has been compromised? You’re not alone. Banking phone scams are on the rise, and criminals are becoming more convincing by the day....more
In this episode of The Consumer Finance Podcast, Chris Willis is joined by veteran litigators and Troutman Pepper Locke Partners Mary Zinsner and Heryka Knoespel to dissect a groundbreaking Fourth Circuit decision on bank...more
Key Takeaways - The Federal Reserve Board issued a removal and prohibition order against a former bank employee based on alleged misconduct unrelated to her role at the bank, raising concerns about the scope of regulatory...more
US Bank Unveils ‘Deposit Token’; Exchange Launches Multiple Crypto Products - According to recent reports, the largest bank in the U.S. has unveiled plans to pilot a so-called “deposit token,” JPMD, on the Ethereum...more
On May 28, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a judgment issued by a district court judge in U.S. SDNY dismissing a plaintiff-appellant’s claims under the FCRA for allegedly failing to reasonably...more
Life in the United States and most modern industrialized countries is driven primarily by data. Google alone processes 20 Petabytes of data every day (1 petabyte = 1 million gigabytes. Economies are built on data; marketing...more
In this podcast, JAMS neutrals Peter Kamminga, Esq., Ph.D., and Jeffrey Grubman, Esq., discuss the rise in financial scams targeting consumers and the various ways in which those scams typically take shape, including...more
Len and Dean examine the rising threat of bank fraud, its financial toll, and how institutions can fight back with technology, education, and compliance....more
On April 17, the OCC announced enforcement actions against three institution-affiliated parties, alleging in the first instance fund misappropriation, in the second Paycheck Protection Program fraud, and in the last...more
On April 22, the U.S. SDNY granted a bank’s motion for interlocutory appeal and stay pending appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in a case involving alleged violations of the EFTA. The case stemmed from...more
On March 26, the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit issued a decision that has important ramifications for banks and credit unions that process millions of Automated Clearing House (ACH) and Electronic Funds Transfer...more
In a February 19 complaint filed in Arizona state court, Texas-based payment processer Switch Commerce LLC argued that multistate cannabis operator Trulieve Cannabis Corp. and its affiliates should be responsible for a...more
On March 5, the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona received the CFPB’s notice of dismissal with prejudice in a lawsuit against several banks involving alleged widespread digital payment fraud on a popular...more
In simple words, a cheque is an order to a bank to pay a particular sum of money from the account of the issuer of the cheque, written on a specifically printed form. The issuer of the cheque is called the drawer, while the...more
In this episode of The Consumer Finance Podcast, Chris Willis is joined by Mary Zinsner and Heryka Knoespel, partners in Troutman Pepper Locke’s Consumer Financial Services Practice Group, to discuss the latest in deposit...more
On October 1, 2024, the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority (UK FCA) phased out ‘Zombie’ LIBOR, as a transitional benchmark, with the move to alternative “risk-free” rates....more
As we have previously explored, litigation involving account takeovers (“ATOs”) and business email compromise (“BEC”) fraud have produced a muddled legal landscape. As between payors and intended payees, courts have tended to...more
In an era where digital transactions are increasingly vulnerable to sophisticated fraud, regulators around the world are stepping up to enhance consumer protection and cybersecurity. Singapore's Shared Responsibility...more
Recently, the CFPB released the complaint that it filed against a peer-to-peer payment service (P2P) and three large banks, alleging widespread fraud on the P2P platform. The Bureau filed the complaint in the U.S. District...more
As we noted in our Fraud and Commercial Loan Transactions: Post-Judgment Legal Strategies Webinar, fraud in commercial loan transactions presents significant challenges for creditors seeking to recover funds. Once a judgment...more
In one of the first tests of the implications of the Jarkesy decision for other federal regulatory agencies, an individual accused by the FDIC of participating in fraudulent loan activity is asking a federal judge to dismiss...more
On April 16, in the Court of Chancery of the State of Delaware, a judge threw out a case with prejudice where a shareholder (the plaintiff) sued a bank but ultimately failed to show a “substantial likelihood of liability.”...more
Authorised push payment (APP) fraud in the UK is the largest type of payment fraud, both in number of scams and value of losses. It involves a fraudster convincing someone to send a payment to a bank account that the...more
Authorised Push Payment (“APP”) fraud, where victims are tricked into authorising payments to fraudsters, resulted in losses of £485.2m in 2022 and is reported to have risen by 22% in 2023. With consumer protection laws...more
The Office of the Controller of the Currency (OCC) issues a semiannual risk perspective report that “addresses key issues facing banks, focusing on those that pose threats to the safety and soundness of banks and their...more